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Franklin Library 1979. Signed Limited Edition. Leather bound. All edges gilt. Raised Bands. Tight binding and crisp pages. Thread sewn pages. 22 kt. gold lettering and accents. Silk moiré end sheets and page marker. Laid-in notes from the editors. Signed by author. 232 pp

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin that examines the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a source of inspiration and community. It also details the social and psychological pressures that lead to the moral and spiritual decline of John Grimes, a teenage boy much like Baldwin himself.